Shuttle for looms.



PATENTED -DEC 11, 1906.

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ELIZABETH NUTTALL, OF BURY, ENGLAND.

SHUTTLE FOR LOOIVIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Dec. 1 1, 1906.

Application filed August 2'7, 1904. $erial No. 222.445.

To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH NUTTALL, a British subject, and a resident of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shuttles for Looms for lVeaving, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to further improvements in loom-shuttles of the class in which the yarn can be threaded without suction, with the object of facilitating the threading and obviating any necessity of blowing the thread through or of applying the shuttle in a any way to the mouth.

The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of shuttle. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is a transverse section.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, (which are a side elevation plan and transverse section, respectively,) the shuttle A is constructed with a bridge-piece a in front of the shuttle-tongue B, forming a large opening D in front of the bridge a, to which the fingers of the operative have ready access. The opening D may pass from top to bottom of the shuttle, or it may extend from the top only part way through the shuttle. The shuttle-tongue B is of ordinary construction, and it and the bridge a are relatively so placed that the tongue of the shuttle projects forward into close proximity thereto, thereby preventing any liability or possibility of ballooning of the yarn off the point of the shuttle-tongue. In the bridge a two holes E and F are cut or bored, joining the interior of the shuttle with the opening D in the point for the passage of the yarn. The hole E is immediately opposite the end of the shuttle-tongue B from which the yarn is delivered to it, and the hole i F is placed in any other convenient position, i more or less inclined, as may be desired. l Both holes may be fitted with a pot or metallic eye or ferrule to prevent the yarn cutting into the wood of the shuttle. At one side of the bridge a an inclined slit e is cut from the top of the shuttle into the hole E and another inclined slit f into the hole F, by which the yarn from the cop can be readily passed into the hole E and through it into the opening D and back again into the interiorof the shuttle. A hole G is cut in the side of the shuttle, through which the yarn can be easily pushed to the outside by the finger of the operative, no blowing or suction of any sort being re quired or possible of application.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A shuttle for looms for threading Without suction constructed with a bridge-piece a in front end of the shuttle close to the shuttletongue a large opening D in front of the bridge a small inclosed longitudinal aperture through the bridge, an inclined slit from the top of the bridge to the aperture therein, a second small inclosed longitudinal aperture through the bridge an inclined slit from the top of the bridge thereto, and a large aperture in the side of the shuttle-shell substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELIZABETH NUTTALL.

Witnesses:

J. OWDEN OBRI'EN, B. LATHAM WOODHEAD. 

